دانلود کتاب Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

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Contents
General Introduction
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 1: Antiquity Reborn
Introduction
1. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
Letter to Cicero (1345)
Letter to Homer (1360)
2. Giovanni Boccaccio
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Book XIV (1360/1374)
4. Poggio Bracciolini and Cencio Romano, Book Hunters
Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino Veronese (1416)
Cencio Romano, Letter to Francesco da Fiano (1416)
Chapter 2: Explorations of the Self
Introduction
5. Petrarch
To Posterity (1351/1372)
6. Giannozzo Manetti
On the Dignity and Excellence of Man (1452/1453)
7. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
8. Michel de Montaigne
To the Reader (1580) and Of Experience (1587–1588)
Chapter 3: The Civic Experience
Introduction
9. Leonardo Bruni
In Praise of the City of Florence (1404)
10. Francesco Barbaro
On Marriage (1415)
11. Alamanno Rinuccini
On Liberty (1479)
12. Juan Luis Vives
On Assistance to the Poor (1526)
Chapter 4: A World in Crisis
Introduction
13. Lauro Quirini
Letter to Pope Nicholas V, on the Fall of Constantinople (1453)
14. Angelo Poliziano
Account of the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478)
15. Luigi Guicciardini
The Sack of Rome (1527)
16. Olympia Fulvia Morata
Letters (1551– 1555)
Chapter 5: Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More: Visions of the State
Introduction
17. Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (1513)
18. Desiderius Erasmus
On the Education of a Christian Prince (1516)
19. Thomas More
Utopia (1516)
Chapter 6: Humanism and the Arts
Introduction
20. Leon Battista Alberti
On Painting (1435)
21. Isabella d’Este
Letters on Painters and Painting (1497– 1506)
22. Albrecht Dürer
Letters to Willibald Pirckheimer (1506)
23. Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography, Book II (1558/1566)
Chapter 7: Humanism and Religion
Introduction
24. Lorenzo Valla
On the Donation of Constantine (1440)
25. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Exhortatory Letter on Translating the Gospels into French (1523)
26. Bernardino Ochino
Dialogue about the Thief on the Cross (1540)
27. Gasparo Contarini et alii
Report on the Reform of the Church (1537)
Chapter 8: Humanism, Science, and Philosophy
Introduction
28. Marsilio Ficino
Letters (1473/1474)
29. Nicholas Copernicus
Preface to On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
30. Galileo Galilei
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
31. René Descartes
Discourse on Method (1637)
Chapter 9: Women and Humanism
Introduction
32. Isotta Nogarola
Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve (1451)
33. Laura Cereta
Letters to Bibolo Semproni (1488) and Lucilia Vernacula (1487)
34. Cassandra Fedele
Oration in Praise of Letters (c. 1487)
35. Marie Le Jars de Gournay
The Equality of Men and Women (1622)
Chapter 10: Other Worlds
Introduction
36. Amerigo Vespucci
New World, Letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici (1502/1503)
37. Garcilaso de la Vega, “El Inca”
Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609–1617)
38. Saint Francis Xavier
Letter to His Companions in Europe (1552)
39. Luís Vas de Camões
The Lusiads (1572)
Texts and Studies
Index